The author Isabel Wilkerson wrote two books which I’ve read in the
last year or two. The second one was “Caste, The Origins of our
Discontents.” In it, she looks at castes in three countries: India,
the US, and Germany. She notes the extent to which the Nazis, once they
had control of the government and needed to write laws supporting their
scourges, followed the template of the American south. At one point, on
the matter of who was to be considered a Jew, they looked at the
American definition of a negro as one having “a single African
American anywhere in your family tree”. For the Nazis that was a
bridge too far, so they stopped looking past the grandparents. The
American criterion was more than they thought they could sell to the
German people.
The other book she wrote, “The Warmth of Other Suns” is a history of
the Great Migration, the flight of six million from the south to the
north in the US, was a real eye-opener for me. I had never understood
how brutal Jim Crow was.
--Barry
On 16 Oct 2021, at 11:01, Jon Zingale wrote:
Eventually, the video discusses eugenics, which of course, the United
States helped spearhead:
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